This is something new for me. For the last 22 years, my family has served the homeschooling movement without ever uttering a single word (in print OR behind the scenes) regarding national or state politics.

But now that one particular candidate-former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee-is experiencing a surge in popularity that the mainstream press attributes to the homeschool movement, I feel the need to say a few words.

For those who haven’t yet seen it, an “ahaH” means “another homeschooler against Huckabee.” For me, the issue isn’t so much being “against” Mr. Huckabee as it is speaking in my own voice, and not supporting one candidate based on a single issue that I favor, at the behest of one person. Homeschooling is not homogenous.

2 responses to Mary Pride is an ahaH

I think the real question is who does Michael Farris represent? It appears he is taking homeschoolers for granted or figures they are so stupid and naive they will not see the contradictory nature of his endorsement. Or both. It appears he is trying to please his Republican theocrat friends and the homeschoolers who butter his bread. One cannot serve two masters. He must want that job in the White House REAL bad. Bad enough to sell out homeschooling?